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Performance

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Features

Features

WD Red is designed specifically for small NAS systems that have 1 to 8 drive bays. The drives are designed and extensively tested for compatibility in the unique 24x7 operating environment and for the demanding system requirements of home and small office NAS.

Storage for 1 to 8 bay NAS solutions - WD Red is designed specifically for NAS systems that have 1 to 8 drive bays in both 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch form factors. The drives are designed and extensively tested for compatibility in the unique 24x7 operating environment and for the demanding system requirements of home and small office NAS.

NASware grows to 3.0 - WD Red now supports small NAS systems from 1 to 8 bays thanks to NASware 3.0, which further improves drive compatibility and reliability. At 48 TB of total capacity in an 8 bay system, WD Red expands your NAS experience.

Longer warranty coverage - The WD Red drive is backed by a 3-year limited warranty for greater peace of mind and a longer warranty coverage that matches most NAS system manufacturers.

Need help? We offer premium support - Every WD Red hard drive comes with our world-class professional support services including a premium dedicated 24/7 support line (available in English, other regional support hours vary) and a 3-year limited warranty.*

* Support outside of normal business hours is available in English onlyGo to http://support.wd.com for further details.

Usage

For NAS systems

Quick Info

WarrantyBeyond any applicable Newegg return policy, this item is warranted independently by the product's Manufacturer or a Third party. Below is a summary provided for convenience only and may not be accurate or current.
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Rating: 1/5Reluctant to Buy

Pros: WD Red drives are solid performers and perfect for NAS systems. Price per terabyte is good when you catch them on sale.

Cons: Not the fastest drives, but in NAS systems the hard drive isn't the slowest link in the chain. Questionable packaging practices from Newegg.

Other Thoughts: This is directed more to Newegg than WD. I like WD Red drives and plan to buy more, but not here. Newegg's practice of tossing a drive into a box along with some padding makes for a 50/50 chance your drive will function when it arrives. They really need to get back to properly securing hard drives for shipping.

Newegg has done more harm than good to their reputation over hard drive packaging issues over the years. Getting it out the door fast is not always beneficial.

Rating: 5/5So Far i love Them

Pros: Bought 2 and put them into a RAID 1 config. They run my WHS and are upgrades from Seagate 1.5 TB. They are running in a very small inclosure 24/7 for the last 4 months and i haven't had a hiccup yet. the Case is in a cabinet and has endured some heat... These are storing and serving almost 1000 movies and all mine and my GFs user files to the tablets, 2 laptops, 2 phones, 1 desktop and the internet. I have done a good deal of video editing while streaming mulitiple HD movies and copying large files to them and I didn't experience any lag!

Cons: None so far

Other Thoughts: If i got a dud i would be upset but would still use them.

Rating: 1/5CAVEAT EMPTOR!

Cons: The reliability of this drive is highly questionable. I'm on my second drive from WD after I RMA'd the first one. Now this drive is on the verge of failure according to my NAS. And before people ask, yes, the NAS is alright since I have another drive in there chugging along just fine.

This seems like a series of lemons from WD and I hope they learned some lessons from this drive series. I've heard the 4 and 2 TB drives are reliable but for whatever reason, the 3TB series seems to be a dog.

Other Thoughts: The irony of this drive is that it's specifically made to be used in NAS and yet I'm already experiencing my second failure with this drive in a Synology NAS.

I still believe WD makes good hard drives. It's disappointing because this is the first series of drives from WD that I've found not to be reliable.

Unfortunately for WD, I might be looking at other competitors more closely after this fiasco.

Rating: 5/5Jury Still Out

Other Thoughts: I only bought 1 WD Red drive since NewEgg was out of the HGST drive I wanted......I was reluctant to try the Red with all the negatve reviews but I've had good luck with WD in the past.Time will tell if WD has fixed the huge problem it seems to have had with DOA drives.

Rating: 2/5Slow, unreliable

Other Thoughts: Bought 4 for a home NAS. Two of four drives failed after a year. Did extensive testing before putting into actual service. Very high latency starting data transfers (read), sometimes up to 10+ seconds. After a year one disc started throwing ever increasing SMART errors then failed. Shortly after another disc did the same.

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